supporting broadcom gig BCM5751

Paul Saab ps at freebsd.org
Sat Sep 25 08:54:25 PDT 2004


Can you try http://yogurt.org/FreeBSD/bge_5750.diff

It got my 5751 working.

Peter Radcliffe (pir at pir.net) wrote:
> I'm trying to install a new dell machine at work but it's coming up
> with an unknown internal gig ether card and it's stupidly fussy about
> PCI cards (won't boot with random cards in it).
> 
> The device is; 0x14e4 0x1677 which some searching tells me is a
> broadcom BCM5751 gig ether card.
> 
> Adding the device ids to if_bge.c and if_bgereg.h;
> 
>   #define BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751		0x1677
> 
> 	{ BCOM_VENDORID, BCOM_DEVICEID_BCM5751,
> 		"Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet" },
> 
> and PXE booting with the new kernel gives me;
> 
>   bge0: <Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4001> mem
>     0xdfcf0000-0xdfcfffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
>   NMI ISA a0, EISA ff
>   RAM parity error, likely hardware failure.
> 
>   Fatal trap 19: non-maskable interrupt trap while in kernel mode
>   instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc028a8cb
>   stack pointer           = 0x10:0xc0821d4c
>   frame pointer           = 0x10:0xc0821d54
>   code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                           = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>   processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0
>   current process         = 0 (swapper)
>   interrupt mask          = net tty bio cam 
>   trap number             = 19
>   panic: non-maskable interrupt trap
> 
> This doesn't happen with a default kernel (or my special build kernel
> without the source patch). ANy hints or does this need real driver
> support work ?
> 
> P.
> 
> -- 
> pir

-- 
-ps


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